Ludum Dare 32 — April 17th-20th, 2015 — Theme: An Unconventional Weapon
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| 1. |  | this is another rhythm game
fight off demons using the power of music controls: left arrow right arrow enter - select escape - b ... |  - Audio - Coolness |
| 2. |  | EUROVISION: WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH THE POWER OF SONG
In this game you are the leader of a European country who wants world domination. ... |  - Audio - Coolness |
| 3. |  | Grab your longboard and put on your stereoscopic glasses, cuz we're heading into the distant future of 1999!
An evil sentient AI known a ... | - Audio |
| 4. |  | UPDATE! I've started work on the Post-Compo version. Changes so far:
- Added circles that pulse around your character to your current wea ... | - Coolness |
| 5. TIE |  | Detune is a rhythm game with platform elements.
Something strange happened in your kingdom, and suddenly it is full of monsters and thorn ... | |
| 5. TIE |  | Young Billy McMath has a lot of problems! With what weapon shall our young hero confront the challenges of violent bullies, peer pressure, ... | - Humor - Coolness |
| 7. |  | Well this turned out to be stranger than expected... You are a space ball, tasked by a space squid to conquer space! Explore four different ... | - Coolness |
| 8. |  | ABOUT:
Audio Assault is a rhythm game where you defend your bases by tapping keys in time with the music. Match the music and your audio-tu ... | - Coolness |
| 9. |  | Thanks to Sheepolution for the 64bit Linux build and WetDesertRock for the OSX build. ... | - Graphics |
| 10. |  | Sam's building is overrun by Martians! Get her to the first floor using... her boombox, I guess? Look -- no-one said this was gonna be easy ... | - Coolness |
| 11. |  | ¡WHOA pizza!
Arrow keys and space. ... | - Humor |
| 12. |  | Music is your weapon!
WASD to move, Arrow Keys to match the patterns The more accurate your rhythm, the stronger the attacks are! Rea ... | - Coolness |
| 13. |  | [ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＳ － ３６０ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＬＥＲ ]
RIGHT STICK & D-PAD.......MOVEMENT / A..........JUMP / ... | - Overall |
| 14. |  | You have to go. Now. It’s been activated. I tried talking to them, they didn’t believe me. They think I did it. That’s besides the poi ... | - Coolness |
| 15. |  | Bass.Drop(); is a survival DJ game, where you collect Bass points and Drum points to drop the bass. Bass drop produces good vibes, as a DJ y ... | - Coolness |
| 16. |  | ** READ THIS FIRST **
This game uses 3D positional audio and so it requires headphones / earphones, and also requires a somewhat new vers ... | - Coolness |
| 17. |  | NOTE: if the web version is lagging, download the standalone version for more settings.
Make your way to the odd harmonies and use your ... | |
| 18. |  | You are an alien crab, and you were told that the most powerful weapon in the universe was hidden in this maze. You finally found a way to g ... | - Fun - Coolness - Overall |
| 19. TIE |  | The Bluetoids are on their way to invade Earth! You are leading the fight, by hacking into their favorite search engine and rearranging the ... | - Coolness |
| 19. TIE |  | My homage to The Stanley Parable.
It's a short, narrative game with six different endings, depending on how well you listen to the narrat ... | - Coolness |
| 21. |  | When your enemy is disease, you don't fight with guns. The Rot threatens humanity and our only defence is the Global Wellbeing Ops. In this ... | - Coolness |
| 22. TIE |  | The game is inspired by "Full Metal Jacket". The idea was to mix message and gameplay.
Indeed, this is the brainwashing which allows this s ... | - Coolness |
| 22. TIE |  | UPDATE: I've uploaded bugfixed versions which should help with the mouse aiming at different resolutions since players were reporting this n ... | - Coolness |
| 22. TIE |  | HIGHSCORE: 230
Clumsy Crew: Incredible Tank is a shoot 'm up arena game with a twist: Your crew is repairing your tank, but they're not v ... | - Coolness |
| 25. TIE |  | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Tabletop gameplay to a new level, were rolling ... | - Coolness |
| 25. TIE |  | THE REBAKE IS IN THE OVEN! http://potat0wned.maddestudiosgames.com/
===CONTROLS=== Mouse + click to aim and throw potatoes. WASD (D ... | |
| 27. TIE |  | Super Burning Mummy is a puzzle platformer about leveraging your flammability. Help the mummy escape his tomb, because if a mummy is animate ... | |
| 27. TIE |  | The game about a djent guitarist who wants to get the summit of glory with own great music band. Help him to achive dreams!
Control: * ... | - Coolness |
| 29. TIE |  | -= Description =-
You try to escape from a laboratory. But you have only one weapon : a micro wave. By programming this micro wave, y ... | - Coolness |
| 29. TIE |  | A video game.
Play with it. <3 Ditto ps. I messed up the theme kinda, thought I was adding enemies but I didn't.. Woops, sue me ... | - Overall |
| 31. TIE |  | Use sounds to fight your way to the next level!
Emscripten Edition: http://my-gate.net/pub/Synth-Guitar.html Goal: You're a synt ... | |
| 31. TIE |  | Welcome to the "Alternate Reality Boss Fight"!
Update: I released the game with an older version of Flash Player, so you won't see a blac ... | - Coolness |
| 33. |  | You are an assassin. The badass ones. But for your new contract, your clients want you to kill your target in an “unconventional” way. C ... | - Graphics - Overall |
| 34. TIE |  | Bagelbot is a wild mix of the classic Dig Dug, Super Crate Box and the creator's crazy fanatics. Combined with a unexpecting theme: Bagelbot ... | - Coolness |
| 34. TIE |  | Square Sprint is a speed run click fest! Make your way through 10 levels of squares as fast as possible.
Collect all of the colored squar ... | - Coolness |
| 36. |  | I didn't finish it in time, but here's what I got done during the compo. An adventure game set in the future, or at least the beginnings of ... | |
| 37. |  | Izer, a strange rover goes on earth to save it from the control of the robots.
You will play his unique friend called the "Claper" : go fin ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | Hi.
My take on the theme is a weapon that lets you swap your physical location with entities of equivalent mass. You kill them with their ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | Play the drums right or the zombies will eat you! It's a guitar-hero-esque game.
You can configure drum keys by highlighting the drum in ... | - Coolness |
| 40. |  | Do you like hugging other people?
In Hugline Miami, the goal is to hug as many people as possible. You have a number of different masks a ... | - Coolness |
| 41. TIE |  | Worst game ever, but I did have fun making it! c:
This game was made in 5.5 hours, and I have no idea what it is (okay, i do, but suspens ... | |
| 41. TIE |  | A nuclear bomb (or "an unconventional weapon", seriously, Google it!) was detonated a day ago. Our hero survived. The question is, for how l ... | - Coolness |
| 43. TIE |  | The Unconventional Weapon would be a Magnet Gun! And when I decided to name the game MagGunner, it sounded a little like MacGuyver which ins ... | - Coolness |
| 43. TIE |  | "Silence" is game about the power of sound.
The world has been silenced and only a true heroine can obtain the instruments of power to sav ... | - Coolness |
| 43. TIE |  | What can be used as weapon?
What weapon would look epic and pathetically? I think it's soundgun! CONTROLS: Ctrl (⌘) or left mouse bu ... | - Coolness |
| 46. TIE |  | Love Bomber - The Cult Simulator
Spread the love and convert people to your religion. Keyboard Controls --- Up, Down, Left, Right ... | - Coolness |
| 46. TIE |  | Descend the endless, randomly generated Strike Dungeon while knocking out as many pins as you can with your Trusty Bowling Ball along the wa ... | - Coolness |
| 48. TIE |  | Your name is adit. There are candies flying at your face as you drive, your only weapon is your ridiculously long tongue. Protect your visio ... | - Coolness |
| 48. TIE |  | Mable is the story of a girl who is trying to save the forest from the demons who are draining it of colour. Unfortunately, her magical swor ... | - Coolness |
| 50. TIE |  | A little girl is fed up with her three brothers. Use her doll to teach them a lesson!
Control to throw, arrow keys to move. Up to jump an ... | |
| 50. TIE |  | Air hockey with a twist! Score by hitting the puck of your color into the opponent!
I wrote the song for it in about 2 hours, it's here ... | |
| 50. TIE |  | when you encounter
one of your kind you must use their own weapons against them wise, humerous sensitive, ancient. four types o ... | - Coolness |
| 53. TIE |  | Top-Down game where you play as bob, a man whose dreams of becoming an astronaut have been ruined by society and the common cold. The easier ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | Earth is being invaded by hostile aliens. With nothing at hand to fend them off, the council of mantis men has decided to use the satellites ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | Wok is a top down shooter where your only weapon is... a WOK!
I did Sound, Music, Art, Programming Controls: W-A-S-D / Arrow Keys : ... | |
| 56. TIE |  | Your weapons are a bass guitarr and an amplifier. And your job is to quiet all the lame music in the world.
When you slap the bass your a ... | |
| 56. TIE |  | Hey this is my Ludum Dare 32 game i made called Clarinetto. I used Game Maker to make it.
There is only 1 level. Why is he in the woods? ... | |
| 58. TIE |  | You wake up.
Walking. On a tundra. You're cold. Where are you? How did you end up here? - - - - - - - TUNDRA is a piece of intera ... | - Coolness - Mood |
| 58. TIE |  | Game about reactor in unconventional space weapon.
[ Z ] - dash [ X ] - turn IF YOU LIKE THE GAME, TRY POST-COMPO VERSION! ... | - Coolness |
| 60. TIE |  | The Song of Aria is a game about a Songcrafter; a girl called Aria who can craft magic with her voice. She is also blind and uses her singin ... | - Coolness |
| 60. TIE |  | How to become the best treasure hunter?
Get rich and buy "Coin Cannon", shoot coins at treasures to BUY THEM ALL! # CONTROL Mouse click ... | - Coolness |
| 60. TIE |  | Survive as long as you can in the Beta Bot testing facility! Use the resources you scrap together and the always changing set of installed a ... | |
| 63. TIE |  | Make your last stand against the invaders in this retro inspired arcade toast 'em up.
Try to beat my high score of 1119. (this is doable ... | - Coolness |
| 63. TIE |  | _________________CONTROLS_________________
Keyboard: > Left/Right .................................... Move > Up/Down .......... ... | - Coolness |
| 65. |  | James Bomb seems like at first seems like a normal bomb, but other than his bomb friends he does not want to hurt anyone(including himself) ... | |
| 66. TIE |  | BONEVENTURE, a game in which you play as a skeleton.
Your ribs are your weapons, but also prevent you from dying! What happens when you ... | - Coolness |
| 66. TIE |  | One slow beat 'em up, where the only gun is poetry to bring happiness, while looking for his beloved... To play, think, and enjoy a slowly m ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | Update 21/04/15: made boss battle easier.
Uploaded on Kongregate (in case my website's down) In this adventure game you play as Detectiv ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | Where's Manno?
-------------- That is all you have to commit to memory while playing this dark, glitchy, first person exploration game. ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | This is "Two Scoops". The sun god Helios has come down to punish man kind. Beware his scoops of wrath! All in his path will perish.
Left ... | |
| 70. TIE |  | Jedde uses her hair as a paintbrush, and paint as a weapon in this endless runner. I originally had plans to make all the game's art in wate ... | |
| 70. TIE |  | Created in 12 hours, changed from Comp to Jam as I used open source music.
You're a cluster of Eyeballs in space, attacking with your eyes ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | ---------PLAY ON WINDOWS/MAC TO GET FULL GRAPHIC FEATURES----------
---THE GAME WAS MADE TO WORK ON 450x300. DONT TRY TO FULLSCREEN--- --- ... | - Graphics - Coolness |
| 74. TIE |  | Robots have taken over the world
Wield the power of the forest to take back control of the planet from the robot usurpers. Summon sna ... | |
| 74. TIE |  | Game about a mouse that's home alone with his baby brother.
Might involve blood ._. ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Out Of Mind is a dungeon crawler in a Kafkaesque nightmare. Your enemies are delusions conjured by your paranoia, and your only weapon is to ... | - Mood - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | This stealth game is about monk who has unconventional mind weapon. Purpose is capture MEDIUM.
NOTE: Some of player solutions may make the ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | ALIEN HEADBANG!
Raise your fingers, sight the green guys at a distance, and squuueeeeze! (yes, this is pretty much a ripoff of the Kid ... | - Theme |
| 79. TIE |  | If you stream, make a video, or heck even just write a post about this game, hit my up in the comments section or at @mkarpd so I can spam a ... | - Coolness |
| 79. TIE |  | You are Commando Kibbles, the pet cat of an eccentric mad scientist who lives in the countryside. Two Portals have strangely appeared near h ... | |
| 79. TIE |  | You have to kill a mosquito with a homemade flamethrower.
But don't put your bedroom on fire ! Click to light the lighter. Spacebar to ... | - Coolness |
| 82. TIE |  | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Collection is a top-down dungeon crawler. Play as Jimmy ... | - Coolness |
| 82. TIE |  | After thousands of years of breeding programs humanity has
finally bred the perfect ram fighter pilot. Their natural inclination to ram eac ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | Hi there!
Just a quick warning: Freddy's Challenge is NOT complete, but it is playable. I hope you will still take a look at it since I spe ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | Shield Maiden
A Mega Man vs Captain America vs Thor ripoff. Best enjoyed with a gamepad. Keyboard: Arrows X Jump C Attack / Ret ... | |
| 86. TIE |  | You've been wrongfully imprisoned! All that you have to your name is a television! Say, that could prove useful...
Distract the guards by ... | - Coolness |
| 86. TIE |  | This game was created in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 32!
The premise of the game is that you have ventured down a manhole in search of your k ... | - Coolness |
| 86. TIE |  | Using your combination sword and fishing pole, fish for fights.
Defeat all three enemies to win. ... | |
| 89. TIE |  | Blink Gun is a puzzle platformer where you control small white square character trying to reach the exit. You will use special kind of weapo ... | - Coolness |
| 89. TIE |  | While exploring the deeper reaches of space in search of civilisation, your ship is invaded by aliens. Due to the lack of weapons around, yo ... | |
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>>>>>> SEE BELOW FOR LINK TO BOTS (if you have nobody to play w ... | |
| 91. TIE |  | After a work accident, you become a blue/red ball that generates a very strong magnetic field. On top of that, you've been transported to a ... | - Coolness |
| 91. TIE |  | Drill through space and destroy your enemies to claim yourself as the king of the galaxy! Star Driller Ultra is a Star Fox-inspired space co ... | - Coolness |
| 94. |  | The evil meta-demon Yalg'th has been terrorising the galaxy. Countless warriors have tried to defeat it, but it can only be slain using a we ... | |
| 95. TIE |  | First person puzzler where you use "power words" to achieve your goals - opening doors, etc.
I know the graphics are very sub par - I am ... | |
| 95. TIE |  | EDIT: Anyone having trouble figuring out where to go next, keep in mind you can look around by moving your kite. The camera will pan to foll ... | - Coolness |
| 95. TIE |  | Hair Dryer Nightmare is a game where your main weapon is your trusty hair dryer.
One day you were drying your hair, and then suddenly you ... | |
| 95. TIE |  | Originally wanted to make a tower defense game, but couldn't find a way to use Construct pathfinding for side view game :/
So it's still ... | |
| 95. TIE |  | Play as a bumbling adventurer who falls into a cave while looking for artifacts. Can you escape with nothing but your helmet?
Controls: ... | |
| 95. TIE |  | Travel through a strange world and experience the tale of two friends.**
Sorry I couldn't make more levels. It's a pretty polished appet ... |
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